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I read and understood what you wrote, but I suspect that you did not quite got what I wrote and I couldn’t find confirmation to your quote from documentation. Even if it worked the way you described the functionality would be bad because SaveAs should save file to given path without obscure failures on certain combinations of path and format. This is especially so as this is not documented well: for example TPad::SaveAs says “Save Pad contents in a file in one of various formats.” Yes it ultimately leads to TPad::Print that says:
Note “file name finishes with”.
As far as I see this documentation does not explain the behaviour reported by OP as his paths does not end with parenthesis so I see no reason why your quote applies to this case; could you provide a link to related documentation? Or perhaps this is related to [url=ROOT and paths with parentheses profound problem in ROOT[/url]?
And while I have obvious shortcomings what comes to reading and understanding text, I would appreciate if you did not find it necessary to emphasize you posts with excessive exclamation marks.